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The Texas Tribune took a look at a proposal to switch the University of Houston-Victoria campus to the Texas A&M University System. Similar to the situation prompting Angelo State University's move from the Texas State umbrella to Texas Tech in 2007, community leaders in Victoria say the current host system isn't giving their school enough attention or funding.
The Victoria Advocate has been reporting on the topic since early March, when state Rep. Geanie Morrison (R-Victoria) filed House Bill 2556 proposing the realignment. The bill has been referred to the House Higher Education committee but hasn't gotten a hearing scheduled yet. (A list of Advocate stories is included below.)
The movement has the backing of Victoria organizations, $100,000 from the local Economic Development Corp. for consultants and lobbyists, and its own website.
What has not been mentioned yet is a certain Victorian who in February gained a position that could give him influence as to the future of his hometown university: A&M Regent Cliff Thomas Jr., who, with his spouse, has donated more than $325,000 to Gov. Rick Perry since 2000, including $100,000 in 2009-2010, as the Texas Independent has previously reported.
Thomas, who owns Speedy Stop Food Stores, and also a fuel lubricant and chemical distributorship, has donated more than $500,000 total to state and federal candidates and committees since 1997. That includes $17,500 to former state Sen. Ken Armbrister (D-Victoria), who is now Perry's legislative director. Armbrister's former aide Mike Sizemore — now a consultant — has been mentioned as a possible candidate for lobbying the Legislature for UHV's realignment, according to the Advocate.
On a side note, UHV is seeking a new university president, with the search narrowed down to four candidates. A flip through their CVs reveals connections to A&M, UH and (in two cases) the University of Hawaii.
Here are links to the Advocate's reporting on the topic:
March 31: UHV suspends chamber membership
March 30: Former UHV president speaks about possible system switch
March 29: A&M VS UH: Universities compared
March 26: Hegar, Sugar Land mayor oppose portion of UHV bill
March 21: UHV/A&M switch: What if the bill fails to pass?
March 20: Do Cinco Ranch, Sugar Land support switch to A&M System?
March 19: Why leave a longtime partner?
March 18: Chamber lends public support to switching to A&M System
March 18: Full list of UHV FAQs: Does A&M support bill?
March 15: Economic development group discusses UHV switch
March 15: $100,000 targeted to lobby legislators, educate public on proposed switch to A&M System
March 10: UHV students react to possible system change
March 9: Bill to move UHV marks 'monumental day' in city's history
March 8: UHV timeline paints background for Tuesday's filing
March 8: Texas A&M University-Texarkana saw growth after switching to A&M system
March 8: Man on the street: How do you feel about Texas A&M possibly taking over UHV?
March 8: Jags look at potential switch to A&M
March 8: How does UH System react to Morrison's bill?
March 8: Switch of UHV to A&M System has some local opposition
March 8: Advocate editorial board opinion: Texas A&M System offers perfect fit for Crossroads


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HONOLULU — An ancient football equation loomed over USC's shoulders Thursday like those eternal Hawaiian hills peeking through the gaps in Aloha Stadium.
When you have two quarterbacks, you have no quarterbacks.
Lane Kiffin's insistence on temporarily giving one of college football's singularly glamorous positions to two players fitted the Trojans opener with a swinging door that smacked them in the face. On a gorgeous tropical night that quickly became hot and ugly, USC turned in an offensive effort against Hawaii that was as watered down as a luau mai tai.
The Trojans won the game, 30-13, thanks to a new and improved defense that held old buddy Norm Chow's team without a touchdown until the final 30 seconds.
But Kiffin suffered another loss in the battle of public perception as his tandem quarterbacks Cody Kessler and Max Wittek combined to lead their offense to only one touchdown before the final minute.
Kessler rarely impressed while playing the first half and the first series of the third quarter, throwing for one touchdown with one interception. Wittek rarely impressed while playing the rest of the game, completing only half of his passes while getting sacked twice.
Both men suffered from the mistakes of offensive teammates who mirrored Kiffin's indecision. It appeared that the equal time shared by the quarterbacks in practice gave the rest of the team zero time to get comfortable with either one.
The offense, gaining just 364 total yards against a smaller and slower defense, wandered clumsily down the field as if in search of a leader. The great Marqise Lee dropped two passes. Only one other wide receiver even caught a ball. The blockers seemed unsure of their schemes, the running backs ran into tackles, and Kiffin's play-calling revealed his increasing lack of faith in either quarterback.
As the Trojans wearily jogged off with shiny faces and sweat-soaked uniforms, the most important question wasn't about which quarterback was better, because they were both equally messy.
The question was, doesn't this awkward and inconsistent offensive performance prove that Kiffin should just pick one? Either one? Right now?
"I think that's a very fair question," Kiffin acknowledged afterward. "That didn't have anything to do with what happened in the first half, but it's a fair question."
Kiffin noted the uncertainty about the quarterback shouldn't have affected the first half because he said the Trojans have basically known for two days that Kessler would be the starter. But still, the offense played for him like it played for Wittek, which was to say, pretty lousy.
In the first quarter, under Kessler, the Trojans had first and goal from the Hawaii one-yard line and had to settle for an Andre Heidari field goal.
In the fourth quarter, under Wittek, the Trojans had first and goal from the Hawaii three-yard line and had to settle for another Heidari field goal.
It was bookend botches that were typical of an attack that was unsettled from start to finish.
"We didn't play very well on offense … we played very poorly,'' Kiffin admitted.
Kessler probably still has the edge because he completed his last four passes of the first half but — and Trojans fans are going to love hearing this — Kiffin said he still doesn't know who should start.
"I have to go back and look at the film; neither separated themselves,'' he said. ''We didn't help them very much, and obviously that falls on me."
It falls on him, and he can climb out from underneath it by simply picking a quarterback this week before Washington State comes to town with the sort of Pac-12 players that will offer a much greater test on Sept. 7 at the Coliseum.
"We've got nine days to figure it out," he said.
Although the two quarterbacks wouldn't exactly say it, here's guessing they already have it figured out. They both know that only by picking one, and sticking with one, will this team's offense finally connect.
"Marqise [Lee] said it in an interview one time, he's the one to call it out, to say he wanted to know," noted Kessler afterward, reminding a questioner of Lee's contention that it was "crazy" that a quarterback had not been picked. "But either way … as a team, we have to stay focused."
It was also obvious that Wittek, who started the final two games of last season, struggled to find his rhythm when he was inserted in the second half.
"Took me a little bit to get warm, but that's just how it is," Wittek said.
It is obviously taking these Trojans a little bit to get warm, and that's not good. The team needs a quick start to regain the momentum that was crushed last season. Kiffin needs a quick start to quiet the critics who will be howling even louder today.
Unlike in recent previous seasons when the Trojans have made their season debut here, there was little buzz during Thursday's game, the stands barely half full. This is not a good sign for a program attempting to regain its national footing. It didn't help that none of the players ever seemed sure who was standing under center.
"My anticipation was both guys would play great, unfortunately that didn't happen," Kiffin said.
The players didn't make a decision for him. So now Kiffin must make one for his team, for himself, and the sake of his season.
It all starts with the quarterback. Singular.
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Trojans quarterback Max Wittek prepares to make a hand off during the third quarter Thursday night at Aloha Stadium. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times / August 29, 2013)
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Martyn Fowler is synonymous with rugby in Cardiff: from humble beginnings coaching his son's under-eights team in Splott, to stints with Bedwas and Merthyr in the Welsh Premiership. His hard work and dedication to the game has been repaid, as he will next season be holding the reins at both Cardiff University and his beloved Cardiff RFC, where he is soon to be unveiled as Director of Rugby. I caught up with the man himself as he took a rare break from masterminding the university's tilt at the Varsity, which is to be held at the Millennium Stadium on Wednesday. Such is Fowler's passion for rebuilding the game in the capital city, I left the interview genuinely excited for the future of Cardiff rugby. With all that's happened in the last few months, how often has anyone been able to say that?
Fowler takes a pragmatic view of the final game of the season, contested between Swansea and Cardiff. Despite his heavy involvement in getting the match moved to the Millennium Stadium -and his unmistakable enthusiasm for the event- he still feels that, unfairly, whatever occurs during this one-off game overshadows his side's efforts throughout the regular season.
"Irrespective of what you do all year, you always seem to be judged on one game," he says. "I don't like that, personally. We've had a phenomenal year in the league - we've beaten Swansea twice - and arguably have one of the best sides we've had in the six years I've been here. On our day, and I say this with the greatest humility, I honestly believe that this year we are the best Welsh university."
Fowler states that the statistics obviously back up this last assertion, and while some university sides occasionally field weakened sides, that certainly hasn't been the case this season. This applies to the UWIC side Cardiff University took on and beat in Cyncoed, of whom Fowler said "they didn't look in the game at all".
"If we can take that type of attitude into the Varsity, we should have a good shout," he reasons. "The problem with the Varsity is that Cardiff are the perennial underdogs, and people need to understand this."
Fowler gives an example as to why this is the case. There was a request from Cardiff's PR office for Swansea players' details (such as names, positions, courses, etc). The Cardiff coaching staff were quite alarmed to see that some of the Swansea players who will be wearing green on Wednesday are quite tenuously linked to the university by means of a Higher National Diploma (HND) in such subjects as 'Sport'. Well, as alarmed as one could be, having experienced the same ruse year on year by Swansea.
"Effectively, you can recruit a team if you have the ability to choose players with HNDs," says Fowler. What with Cardiff's rivals' tendency to select players for the Varsity that haven't played for the university all season, he likens the match to the FA Cup Final. "I would prefer this one-off game to be played on level terms, if I'm honest. That might sound like sour grapes, but we've insisted that our players go through the BUCS [British Universities and Colleges Sport] route, so they've got to earn the right to put that Varsity shirt on. Unfortunately, I don't think that Swansea adopt the same attitude."
"We're happy for everybody to know our team. Our team is our team. It's been our team, on the whole, throughout the season. Their team is always shrouded in secrecy until kick-off, or until you see it on that big screen when you turn up at the stadium."
Having interviewed Fowler on more than one occasion over the last few years, I've seen an obvious affection and loyalty in him for his players that isn't always the case at some rugby clubs. It would explain why he says the following about professional players being parachuted in for the Varsity: "Morally, you've got to ask questions of the Swansea coach. I just couldn't do that to a student who had played for us week in, week out. I couldn't do it. Some things are more important than the Varsity match."
Fowler is pleased that the rugby programme he is overseeing at Cardiff University is bearing fruit. He reels off information about each individual member of the squad without hesitation, most of whom are playing in the Welsh Premiership. (Those who aren't, such as the hulking second row medical student Nic Huntley, are unable to do so because of the heavy workload their courses put on them).
Fowler's credo is that "it's all about getting the best players on the park," which would explain why he's moved Arthur Ellis (as interviewed in my previous blog) from hooker to openside flanker. "Arthur's a superbly talented footballer," he says. "So we're going to take a punt - a very calculated punt."
Cardiff fans disappointed by the last two years' showings at the Varsity will be pleased to hear that the Cardiff head coach is optimistic about his team's chances tomorrow: "There's a nice balance in the side this year, with plenty of experience. I will say -not to put the curse on us- I fancy our chances this year. I really do."
Much of Cardiff's success this season has hinged on the performance of their pack, which pleases Fowler hugely. "Our scrum is really dominant at the moment," come the words that every coach desperately wishes he could say. Besides props such as Jake Cooper-Woolley, Geoff Lewin and Ross Grimstone coming into their third- or fourth-year cycles with the club, there is a 19-year-old Fresher from the Rhondda who has greatly impressed the coach.
Bradley Thyer is a former Wales Under-18's tighthead prop who will be switching to loosehead for the Varsity in his debut season with Cardiff University. It will be an incredible achievement for the Ferndale boy who, along with hooker Grimstone, is viewed by his coach as one of the "shining lights" of the team this season.
Now that Cardiff University's Summer Ball has been cancelled due to record losses, the Varsity is without doubt the biggest event of the Students' Union's calendar. Fowler credits the Union for their hard work and willingness to take risks, adding that he has been lucky to have been part of a dedicated Varsity team for the last four years. He is now a member of the newly formed Varsity Board, a collaboration between the university and the Union. The results thus far have been excellent.
"The Millennium Stadium, live on TV. It's an absolutely fantastic opportunity to showcase everything that's good about student sport," he says proudly.
Among the many players Fowler has coached that have achieved great things in the game, there are two class acts that were allowed to slip the Welsh international net entirely. One is Ben Morgan, the number eight whose rapid rise from anonymity to subject of a tug-of-war between Wales and his native England saw him prevaricate, before choosing the Red Rose. A wise choice, perhaps, considering he was a revelation in white during the Six Nations.
"Ben's almost like an adopted son," beams Fowler, who coached Morgan at Merthyr RFC. "I've got a real fondness for him. No matter what Ben does, he'll always be Ben. If he ended up going on three Lions tours, he would still be the same person."
Fowler has witnessed the pitfalls of being a professional rugby player. "There's always a danger with young men that they get what I call 'New Pro Syndrome,'" he believes. "They tend to lose their way for a couple of years. That will never happen with Ben. He's got great family values; I know the family really well. Those values translate to everything he does off the field."
How exactly a young man from Gloucestershire ended up in Merthyr Tydfil is a tale worth recounting. "I was told about this kid playing on the wing for Cinderford 2nds," recalls Fowler, who at the time had just been given the head job at Merthyr. "I had a budget of around £75,000, so we decided to use that money really wisely and look for something the club hadn't had before."
Wales's Division 1 East is a notoriously attritional, forward-orientated league, so Fowler decided that the only chance Merthyr had of winning it was to look for big men who could also play the ball: "We went up to Cinderford, and there was this huge, Jonah Lomu-esque figure -though slightly less conditioned, I will concede- playing on the left wing, and it was Ben."
"He was as quick as any winger I'd ever seen over the first 30 metres, and he had a lovely soft touch. I wanted to let their coach Mark Cornwall [now, ironically, part of the same Gloucester Rugby set-up Ben Morgan will be part of next season] know first that that I intended to speak to him. He said: 'You crack on: he's lazy, he's hopeless...'"
Fowler immediately threw his new signing into the Welsh 7s circuit, where he proved to be a revelation. In his first season at Merthyr, Morgan was "unstoppable", according to his old coach. While the club ended up finishing second in the league, Fowler firmly believes that had Morgan not been injured in the final month, it is likely they would have won it.
"Ben and his dad Steve fully embraced the Merthyr set-up: they were ever-present there, staying overnight, drinking with the boys. He's a lovely, lovely lad."
The other player I'm referring to is centre Matt Hopper. Hopper was Fowler's Varsity captain in 2007 and, in light of some of his terrific performances for the Harlequins and subsequently the England Saxons, I am curious as to how the powers-that-be let him get away from Wales. Sky Sports and Sunday Times pundit Stuart Barnes has been particularly vocal in proclaiming Hopper the solution to England's midfield problems.
"While he was at university, you could see the talent," Fowler remembers. "I tried to push Matt through the Cardiff Blues region but they didn't even want to look at him. Sometimes you can tell what another coach thinks. Whether they felt the need to pay credence to my opinion is another question. You tend to know good rugby players. Matt's inclusion in the Harlequins and Saxons set-up vindicated my opinion, so I think it was more their loss than Matt's."
Fowler still watches the progress of both Morgan and Hopper, but chances are there might be more than a few players in this university squad who could move on to equally higher ground.
"When my son turned eight, he wanted to play rugby because my brothers and myself all played," says Fowler. "We're a very big rugby family. My dad played rugby, we just loved the game. I injured my back fairly young so I stopped playing, and dipped in and out of the game while I could, because I had to work full-time in the family business."
Aaron, his son, was inspired by watching his father and uncles play rugby and wanted to be a part of that environment immediately. "I was more than happy just to sit there and watch, enjoying the rugby," he says. "But week by week you end up getting more engaged. So I ended up coaching Aaron and the side from under-8 to under-16; then from the Youth years, watching and coaching that team was incredible."
'Incredible' is an apt description, because the team travelled all over Britain, playing various clubs and academies, winning every single game. Some 15 boys from that Youth side went on to be capped at Schools level. Fowler puts this success down to one major factor, which has served him well - be it from coaching an Under-8s side in Splott, to the new role he will take up next season as Cardiff RFC Director of Rugby.
"If you have a good, fun environment, whether it be pro, semi-pro or amateur," believes Fowler, "people are going to want to come and play. You could be paying someone a hundred grand a year, but if the environment's wrong, they're not going to perform."
As Aaron grew older and prepared to go to university (he would go on to successfully captain Cardiff in Varsity '09), Fowler debated whether to carry on coaching. Then he got a phone call from Justin Burnell, then Academy Director of the Cardiff Blues, asking him to coach their U20s side. Under Fowler, the team won the Reebok Championship; a coach's star was on the rise, and he got offered the Head of Rugby job he still holds at Cardiff University.
"Everybody wants to be your friend when you're successful," Fowler says. "But, to date, the biggest achievement for me is turning Cardiff University from a very social side to one of the best university clubs in Wales, if not the UK."
When he first arrived at the university, Fowler struggled to field a fully competitive first XV, while the gulf between that side and the seconds was vast. As the city of Cardiff improves in all aspects, the rugby talent attracted to the university is steadily increasing. If anything, there are now too many players competing for too few teams.
"We've got a number eight coming from the Harlequins Academy next year," says Fowler, who already has one eye on next season. "We've also got Steffan Jones, a big winger who has been playing for the Wales 7s. The talent is really coming through now."
Here is where things get exciting. "In the next month we will be looking to announce a player development link between Cardiff University and Cardiff RFC," reveals Fowler. "When that's up and running, we'll be able to look at reintroducing Cardiff Youth, so our Freshmen will go and play for them. All our better players will play for the first team. If they're not selected for the firsts, we'll reintroduce Cardiff Rags [the club's second team], so there will be a player pathway all the way through."
Any old school Cardiff fans will be delighted with Fowler's ambitions - not surprising, given he is one of them.
"The great thing is that Cardiff University and Cardiff RFC are two institutions synonymous with excellence," he says. It means there will be a means of recruitment and a ready-made pathway through which players can progress. The close proximity of the university and the Arms Park club make it all the more logical. "I'm a Cardiff boy. To coach at the university and at Cardiff RFC is very humbling."
When I suggest that he is theoretically only one step away from a job within the regional set-up, he makes no bones about it being an aspiration of his.
"It's funny, I spoke to [Blues coach] Justin Burnell about this the other day. He spoke to me about the interest surrounding the Cardiff RFC position. You've got a lot of players retiring now, who think they've got the right to go to the top level of the game straight away. While I'm sure they have in some respects, such as skills coaching, I'm a firm believer that, in all walks of life, you've got serve an apprenticeship."
"I believe I've done that. You tend to learn from the hard lessons very quickly. If it's too easy, too quick, you don't get the opportunity to learn from those lessons. If you look at Justin Burnell, he stopped playing and went from coaching Llantwit Fardre to Pontypridd. Justin did it the hard way, as did [fellow Blues coach] Gareth Baber."
Fowler also admires former Wales and Lions prop Dai Young, a past Blues coach now at London Wasps. "A lot of people don't know that he did a lot of coaching at Abercynon before he took the Blues on."
Fowler's primary aim next season is to keep the university in the Premier A league. From a Cardiff RFC perspective, he acknowledges that, without disrespecting the coaches, finishing ninth in this year's league is not good enough.
"For them not to be in the top three or four every year is absolutely criminal, so I'm looking to lean on the university, the Blues and all the rugby clubs in and around the city to make Cardiff great again."


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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - An in-home care provider has been sentenced to more than a year in jail for mistreating a 93-year-old woman with dementia.
A Virginia Beach judge sentenced 48-year-old Shelia D. Beard on Friday after video footage was shown in court of Beard punching, slapping and taunting Selma Cardon Bennett. Beard was sentenced to 18 months but given credit for four months spent in custody during court proceedings.
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In a scene you virtually never see in the NBA, Clippers forward Caron Butler earned two free throws in the closing seconds of a 98-73 loss to the Raptors in Toronto on Friday night by stealing the ball from rookie Jonas Valanciunas after approaching him to request a high-five.
After slapping hands at midcourt, Butler wrestled the ball away from Valanciunas and attempted to run in for a lay-up, only to earn two free throws on a clear path foul by the Lithuanian big man. Everyone else on the court was standing waiting for the game clock to run out in a 20+ point blowout. With the shot clock turned off and the scoring margin at 20+, protocol generally dictates that everyone relaxes in the name of good sportsmanship. Instead, Butler took advantage of Valanciunas, who was playing for the first time in more than five weeks after breaking his finger, ripping him off after suckering him in with an insincere gesture of goodwill.
Just as Bulls center Joakim Noah deserved a scolding for unnecessarily launching a three-pointer in an attempt to win the home crowd free hamburgers, Butler's play sets a bad precedent and encourages retaliation and running up the score in the future. Late-game situations need not be this complicated, regardless of the frustration level of the game or the (lack of) experience of the opponent. Just shake hands and let out the bad vibes in the locker room.
The two free throws helped Butler finish with 12 points and eight rebounds in the loss. Los Angeles dropped to 34-14 on the season.
Rudy Gay scored a team-high 20 points for the Raptors in his first game since being traded by the Grizzlies. Amir Johnson finished with 19 points and 16 rebounds. Toronto improved to 17-30 with the win.
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Always be ready to defend yourself. It was a bush league play but the rookie opened himself to it. There was still time on the clock.
The clippers are the most arrogant whinny team in the league. They are horrible poor sports and can't stand it when they don't get their way! Go to a game to see it, in person you can see what a whiny baby b*^ch face blake griffin and the rest pricks are.
what a d-ck, i would've fouled his brainless ass into the stands. another latrell sprewell type of player. he'll soon be another broke ass ex nba playing bitch
At least Noah was trying to win his fans free Big Macs, Butler was just being a petty sore loser.
It was funny to watch, and Im sure Jonas will learn from this...But at the same time, that was very unsportsman, the look of disgust from the fans will be around the next time LAC come to the ACC to visit the Raptors...and you can expect some boos.
Really? I understand the comments but is this news? Did the two extra points really matter? It was a funny moment. They were losing anyways.
Bush league, selfish play. His own teammates did not look very impressed.
Never trust a man who cannot look you eye to eye...
Very classless.
I hope the 2 points were worth it, lol. How distasteful
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen in basketball.
No that would be the lakers and kobe bryant! Kobe is the biggest B!tch in the NBA. Every time he gets stripped and stopped he whines like a little girl. Don't even get me started on the diva Howard...
Clippers > Lakers
@TK23 Well, it at least has something to do with the sport, unlike all of those stories the media passed as having to do with the Super Bowl or football.
@TK23 One of the funniest basketball plays I've seen in a while. Definitely made Valanciuanas feel dumb but luckily for him it didn't change the outcome of the game.


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The decision by media specialists to launch their own businesses was an obvious one, given the lowly status they enjoyed. According to Will Collin, partner at comms planning agency Naked: "They were second-class citizens. There was no investment in their talent and skills, but it was clear that there was a huge business opportunity and the chance to add value for clients."
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Powerful though the big media shops have become, there are limits to their potential growth, which may go some way to explaining why some of their key staff are jumping ship to join their fledgling full-service rivals.
One motivation for this new trend is basic. "Aside from the strategic logic of integration, a big argument in favour of this model is cash," says Collin. "The revenues associated with media agencies are substantial. They make much better margins than advertising agencies, who want a piece of the pie."
Pressure from weary clients exasperated by the growing number of agencies on their rosters also helps to explain the joint approach.
Ed Ling, former strategy director at digital media agency I-Level and partner in start-up AnalogFolk, says: "Clients find our approach refreshing. They can have a single conversation with two groups, who speak with one voice."
The division of creative and media brought commercial benefits for clients, but also introduced conflict between agencies.
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The advent of digital channels has complicated the landscape, putting planners at the centre of the creative process.
"Media planners are reintegrating with ad agencies because of the increased use of 'content-based communications' that you immerse yourself in," says Forsyth.
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One concept that unites the new wave of full-service agencies is that of the "big idea" - a media-neutral framework on which to hang the brand's central proposition. CHI & Partners, for example, has "ideas teams" and other agencies operate along similar lines.
AnalogFolk's Ling maintains: "Clients used to talk to the ad agency about the creative idea and to the media agency about the media idea. We deliver big brand ideas played out across creative and media."
Another common trait is the decision to eschew media buying and commission-based revenues in favour of fees.
"Buying is commodity-driven; it acts as a distraction from where we want to go and what we want to achieve," says Forsyth.
Others are even more pragmatic. Ling comments: "There's a lot of heavy-lifting that needs to be done with buying, requiring specialist skills and resources."
The fee-based approach reflects the resources required to make new media work. "Digital is very labour intensive," says Grimmer.
"With TV you make money, with digital you lose it. A TV buyer could be handling £4m of business a month, while someone working in search could be handling £1m in a year."
Ultimately, moves to revisit the full-service model may not represent a seismic shift. "It's happening around the margins; a number of different developments are being connected up as a trend," says Naked's Collin.
However, the logic of integrated working does seem irresistible as old boundaries begin to lose their relevance in an increasingly digital world.
Breaking the boundaries: CHI & partners
After six prosperous years, Clemmow Hornby Inge transformed itself into CHI & Partners in May 2007. Internal boundaries were broken down to create a single multidisciplinary unit with an investment in media expertise.
A significant part of that investment was the recruitment of TBWA\Connections director Enyi Nwosu to the post of partner. Working alongside Tim Allnutt - former managing partner of CHI's Naked Inside joint venture - Nwosu's brief was to oversee the integration of communications planning with account planning.
"Before this move, a number of joint ventures such as Naked Inside and the direct marketing operation Hall Moore meant that there was a lot of silo thinking, as every discipline had its own bottom line. Now this has gone," says Nwosu.
Allnutt and Nwosu have history, working together early on in their careers at ad agency Lowe Howard-Spink. The duo have helped CHI staff break down the old disciplinary boundaries to embrace the new model of "ideas planning".
The agency's revamp coincided with WPP taking a 49% stake in the agency. Nwosu is at pains to stress CHI's independence, but acknowledges the advantages of access to the significant media muscle of WPP's GroupM. "GroupM agencies will carry out the media-buying tasks, but CHI manages the process on behalf of clients. We have staff co-located in here and within GroupM agencies, which means we remain fleet of foot and clients enjoy the best of both worlds."
Nwosu believes the joined-up approach brings clear advantages when it comes to persuading clients to use CHI for all their communications needs. "Because Naked Inside remained a separate business, it had to be upsold to clients," he explains. "Now it's integrated into the agency, it is no longer a case of what we sell, but what we do."
The agency's ideas teams comprise creative, digital, design and media strategists. "We line up a solution and because we are fees-based, it doesn't matter what that solution is, be it setting up a website, launching a new product, or running a TV campaign," says Nwosu.
The fees-based model is central to CHI's proposition and Nwosu insists GroupM's involvement has no bearing on this arrangement. "We charge clients based on the resources they require and not on what they spend in the media marketplace," he says. "It's fully transparent and all down to fees, not commission."
So far, The Carphone Warehouse and Tiger Beer are the company's only full-service clients. The agency also won Virgin Money's £12m media planning and buying account in February. True to its full-service model, Nwosu says the agency provides this latest client with input on more than just media. "We advise on business strategy, not just media strategy, and advise on new products and markets," he adds
The agency has 200 staff, of which 20 are involved in ideas planning and six have a media background. Nwosu believes future expansion will come from persuading more clients to embrace the agency's full-service offering. International growth is also a priority, with CHI opening a New York office last September.
Hurrell Moseley Dawson & Grimmer
Greg Grimmer's transition from his former role as managing director of Publicis-owned media agency Zed Media to partner at Hurrell Moseley Dawson & Grimmer (pictured from left) was not a swift one. News of Grimmer's involvement with the new agency broke last October, but it was March 2008 before he could finally jump on board the agency that now bears his name.
Hurrell and Dawson launched in October 2006, and its expansion into media and comms planning under Grimmer coincided with the appointment of Al Moseley as creative director and the fourth partner. The agency's new full-service remit is fully endorsed by Grimmer, who had clear ideas about the need for integration. "We didn't want to create Grimmer Media. I didn't want to open a traditional media agency just so that we would work together like Walker Media and M&C Saatchi. We've taken media expertise in-house so that we can take responsibility for media investments," he says.
The concept of taking responsibility for all areas of a client's marketing strategy is central to the agency's proposition. "If I introduce a client to Zed Media and Zed messes up, then the responsibility for that comes back to me," says Grimmer.
Like others in this tranche of new full-service agencies, Hurrell Moseley Dawson & Grimmer has no plans to engage in media buying. "We've talked to clients about buying but that will be outsourced, just as the creative director would outsource photography for a shoot," says Grimmer.
The agency has so far worked on a fee basis, although flexibility is the name of the game when it comes to working media arrangements. Grimmer says: "We'll have a good working relationship with a client's existing media agency if that's what they want."
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9. Arkansas' Mike Anderson is wary of Mississippi Valley State.
10. Receiver Rueben Randle has become a leader at LSU.
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